The following is a liberal professor's slightly warped view of American democracy. He is certainly liberal and most likely a godless liberal as he accuses Israel of being apartheid. Israel is not apartheid, ask any of the millions of Palestinian Arabs living in Israel, working in schools the government, the military, the boardrooms of Tel Aviv. Those who have full access to education, medical care, social services, etc., etc. Those who live in peace in Israel are happy to be there. Those who cannot see that, have their eyes blinded by the father of lies.
I include this article because it has some very interesting, if not provocative assertions that are worth learning and thinking about.
Truth only comes to those who are willing to follow it wherever it leads.
The Founding Fathers were oligarchs. "We, the people" was not about the ordinary people either, but about this group of predatory capitalists who oppose noble domination. The proof is US history.
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The evidence against this story is overwhelming.
On March 4, Bernie Sanders issued a statement saying that "the United States has supported democracy for 250 years." He expressed concern about the Trump administration’s authoritarian course, which is at odds with a centuries-old tradition of American democratic principles, both nationally and internationally. It's not uncommon to hear conversations like this from American political leaders. Biden has regularly called the United States a "beacon of democracy," as have many presidents before him. Sanders' statement underscores the extent of this speech in the United States, across the entire political spectrum of Congress.
We can understand what Sanders is trying to say. But this claim about the United States and democracy is fundamentally wrong. The evidence against her is indeed overwhelming.
The United States was not founded as a democracy. It was rather an apartheid regime which institutionalized inequalities based on race, gender and class and ruled like an oligarchy. This is not an exaggeration, it's a well documented reality. U.S. states generally restricted the voting rights to white, wealthy men (about 6% of the population). The working class, women and people of color were overwhelmingly denied the right to vote. Virtually all black people were subjected to mass slavery and had no rights. In addition, the Indians were the target of government-sponsored ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Property claims will not be completely abolished until 1856. Women weren't given the right to vote until 1920. Native Americans were given the right to vote until 1948. Racial segregation, the American system of apartheid, was completely abolished until 1964. And only in 1965 did all minorities officially get the right to vote. It's worth stressing this point: the United States didn't get universal voting rights until 1965, almost 190 years after its founding. And in both cases this right was not granted by a government that adhered to democratic principles, but it was acquired by the working class through organized collective struggle.
Nevertheless, the democratic functioning of the United States today is very questionable. Power is divided between two established parties, both of which are led by the rich and both of which are attached to the interests of capital. Third parties are practically excluded from the national political process. Furthermore, elites and corporations can spend unlimited amounts to fund their election campaigns, to install politicians who influence policies to their advantage, in a form of institutionalized political corruption. Under these circumstances, democracy cannot function.
The facts back this up. A 2014 study by Cambridge University Press found that American policy generally follows the preferences of elites and organized interests, even if it contradicts the preferences of the majority. In other words, the United States looks more like an oligarchy than a democracy. This helps to understand the data from the Democracy Perceptions Index, which showed in 2023 only 54% of Americans believed their country was truly democratic and only 42% believed the government served the majority of the population.
So much for democracy in the United States. And how is it abroad? American politicians claim that the United States is the world champion of democracy. But in reality, American policy at this point is exactly the opposite.
The United States regularly interferes in foreign elections in order to corrupt the democratic process and serve its own interests. A recent study by Dov Levin found that the United States interfered in foreign elections at least 128 times between 1946 and 2014, typically to prevent leftist parties from forming a government or staying in power.
In the 20th century, the United States is actively opposing the anti-colonial liberation struggle in Asia and Africa, where democracy and equal rights are fought. They especially supported the apartheid regime in South Africa (the US government cooperated in the imprisonment of Mandela and labeled him a 'terrorist until 2008') and still support the apartheid in Israel. The United States supported Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile, Shah Dictatorship in Iran, Mobutu Dictatorship of Zaire, Franco's Dictatorhood in Spain, and many more. This situation is still current: a recent report shows that 73% of the world's dictatorships receive direct military support from the United States.
The United States also has a long history of carrying out regime change operations in other countries to secure the conditions for their geopolitical hegemony and capital accumulation. Scientists and journalists such as Lindsey O'Rourke, William Blum, and others have documented at least 113 such operations since 1949, based on official documents (excluding operations performed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries under the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary). Half the attacks were committed against liberal democracies or centralist democratic states. The United States has a history of supporting coup d'état or assassination of democratically elected leaders, such as Salvador Allende in Chile, Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, and Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They were all replaced by dictators.
In short, the United States wasn’t established as a Democracy and it hasn’t been for most of its existence. Today they are struggling with such severe democratic shortcomings that they still function like an oligarchy. Furthermore, they have a long history of obstructing, undermining, and even destroying democratic governments abroad. This problem did not start with the Trump administration; this is a structural pathology of the American system. The political goal of American progressives should be to fight for change.
Jason Hickel , March 10, 2025
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Godless Jews must be a terrible bane to our Lord!
The masks are off.
Nearly every major Democrat official stands with Mahmoud Khalil: a leader in a Columbia University hate group that committed vandalism and assaults in support of Hamas, and which had expressed its support for murdering Jews.
That now includes not only Sen. Chuck Schumer but the Jewish Democratic Council of America which styles itself Jewish Dems. The message was delivered by Halie Soifer, the head of the JDCA, who also served as a foreign policy advisor to Kamala Harris.
First, Soifer complained that calling Sen. Chuck Schumer (who also came out for Mahmoud Khalil and Hamas) a ‘Palestinian’ “is antisemitic, racist, Islamophobic, and bigoted all at the same time.”
(One would think that claiming it’s both antisemitic and Islamophobic at the same time would be contradictory?)
This was followed by Soifer and the JDCA launching into the same tired “due process” defense of Khalil.
“While Khalil fomented anti-Israel, antisemitic, and potentially pro-Hamas sentiment in the protests he organized on Columbia’s campus,” Soifer admits. “While we can vehemently disagree with one’s speech, that doesn’t mean it isn’t protected speech under the Constitution.”
She then claimed that Trump is “weaponizing antisemitism to potentially deny constitutionally protected speech. The use of antisemitism as an excuse to deny free speech is not good for our community, security, or democracy.”
The only people who talk about “weaponizing antisemitism” are antisemites and their political allies.
That now includes Soifer and Jewish Dems.
The masks are now off. All the way off.
Haile Soifer concludes with the usual smug lecture. “It may be pro-Palestinian protestors who are targeted and denied their rights today, but we don’t know who will be next. If we support the selective denial of protected speech and rights of others, even those with whom we strongly disagree, we fall into a dangerous trap that will only come at our own peril.”
The problem with that is Jews already lost their protected speech and rights at Columbia U and other universities while JDCA and Sen. Schumer either stood by or reassured the college administrators privately that they had nothing to worry about.
This isn’t about protecting everyone’s rights. It’s about choosing the killers of Jews over Jews.
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